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Updates to data and statistics on Congressional bill complexity
When I put together my original post on the length and complexity of Congressional bills, I was hoping to build forward momentum on the project. The goal was to build a simple, sortable and...
View ArticleBuilding an AWS CloudSearch domain for the Supreme Court
It should be pretty clear by now that two things I’m very interested in are cloud computing and legal informatics. What better way to show it than to put together a simple AWS CloudSearch tutorial...
View Article“Google” for subpoenaed emails: AWS CloudSearch for eDiscovery
In the last post on AWS CloudSearch, I provided a tutorial on the creation of a simple CloudSearch domain for Supreme Court decisions. This walkthrough described the steps of creating a domain,...
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Wordcloud of the Healthcare/ACA (NFIB v. Sebelius) Opinion
Here’s a wordcloud of the NFIB et al. v. Sebelius et al. opinion. Very interesting coalitions formation. Healthcare/ACA wordcloud If you’re interested in the R and Java code for generating these...
View ArticleGit Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional Bill Statistics data. You can find the source at this Github repository. I...
View ArticleSlides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk
Live from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, where I gave an Ignite-style talk drawing analogy to law’s future from finance’s past. Slides embedded below and video forthcoming:
View ArticleLaw’s Future from Finance’s Past: Recorded Talk from Reinvent Law Silicon Valley
Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event – Law’s Future from Finance’s Past. Last week, we posted the video online; you can watch below. Michael Bommarito...
View ArticleMeasuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Its genesis was, in every sense, an accident; in order to properly identify citations to the IRC in...
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Is the Tax Code the longest Title?
Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code. We’d previewed this research on Computational Legal Studies...
View ArticleFeatured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law
Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code, on his excellent Wired Science blog, the Social Dimension. You can read...
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